A Filtered Unfiltered Life - My Take On Filters

I saw this week's first topic that was chosen and I was like "Talk to me directly people of Hive learners" 😂 because yes! I can be used as a case study for your ideas to write for this prompt. Well, not a very good case study depending on where you stand regarding this topic if you'll read further.

Filters are cool, they are different, and they bring in another perspective of a thing or someone but...

Hear me out on what I think about them for myself and others who use them.

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I can still remember the first time I got a phone and was taught how to edit a picture of mine after using wacky camera to take it. I was so overjoyed that I literally took a picture of anything I saw and edit all of them out of fun and trying out new features. Filtered images look good, I want to believe you'll agree with me. They do but there's always a negative side to things like this.

Do I apply filter to make yourself look better?

Oh yes I do and a lot of times actually but not to look better I'd like to add and I've been less a fan of it for a while now because I've come to know my worth behind those filters. While I'll enjoy trying out filter features, I tend to share my originals more on social networks because I know whatever I share is a contribution to my identity to whoever knows me for what they see on site (not the physical me).

I would share filtered images with friends offline and online but that would be after a hundreds of Unfiltered pictures because yes, I like the way I look even if I'm not the most beautiful. For the fact that I know when and where to use Filtered images, I won't count myself as one who is a huge fan of it and so I know very much well to keep my life original as much as possible anywhere I find myself.

Who says filters changes who I am anyways? I still see my face clearly on all the edits I do except skin colour change which isn't much to me since many know my real complexion, would be a good filter if it gets rid of my "Merit's face, shape and maybe how I smile" totally 😂 just kidding!

Do I feel there is anything wrong with this?

Yes, there is but that is only when one's photos everywhere are all filtered with no real thing to show who they really are. Photos are taken for memories but it's pretty obvious that there's more to why people take pictures nowadays and one of it to is to live a life they don't have on social media through pictures.

I've seen a lady who edit her picture until she was in a popular boutique shopping for expensive wears 😂 it was so hilarious but that is it, some people want to send the wrong message with the excuse that they don't want to settle for what they have and they think showing such lives will bring luck to them.

So yeah, it is a total wrong when it is lifestyle thing... Living a fake life on a constant.

I have never been deceived by those who uses filters

Maybe it's because I'm a lady or maybe it's because I know what filters can do, it's just a hard one for me to get deceived by anyone who uses filters. I saw a Tiktok video some days ago and the guy was dancing on a hill so freely when it was obvious that he would fall off easily... I figured immediately that it was all edited.

If I've ever been deceived with photos is having someone not take a full picture but always a selfie and I was shocked to see that the person had bad looking legs (no offence) but one is bound to be found out no matter how hard they try to use filters to cover up so why the bother?!

I take filters to be some invention to use for fun, not make it one's life, it gets unreal and not so cool at that point. So yeah, I use filters but only for fun and to try out options.